[Review 6478] Vegan fishballs @ 素食主意 Sooo Vegi

26/03/2018
素食主意 Sooo Vegi
灣仔麥加力歌街1-19號地下A舖
Shop A, G/F, 1-19 McGregor Street, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/vegan-fishballs-e3009574

Vegan fishballs
2018-03-26  843 瀏覽
I love the food here because it is affordable.
Most people don't know but they have been serving curry fishballs since 2016.
I have forgotten how they taste so went back for them.
The Curry Turnip and Fishballs cost $38 and you get a fair amount of radish and fishballs and the turnip was soft and full of curry flavour unlike some places where the turnip is not even cooked and tasteless.
If you like Chiuchow style white fishballs and squidballs, the texture is similar but much softer like marshmallow with a fishy taste.
Will come back for their other new dishes which I haven't tried.

[Review 6477] Assaggio x SunnyQueen @ Assaggio Trattoria Italiana

25/03/2018
Assaggio Trattoria Italiana
灣仔港灣道2號香港藝術中心6樓
6/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/assaggio-x-sunnyqueen-e3008651

Easter is all about Eggs hence Assaggio are doing an Egg themed menu available from 26/3 – 29/4 in the evenings.
There is a Sunny Egg Combo or you can order the items a la carte.
Using good eggs are important for the best taste, hence they have chosen to use organic eggs from Sunny Queen Farms where the chickens are not caged.

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PIZZA GOURMET
Parma Ham, Spinach, Truffle Sauce, Soft-baked Egg

It had all my favourite ingredients, so I clearly liked it and I liked the way there was more spinach beneath the cheese as well on top which makes it healthy as well as delicious complemented by the parma ham and egg yolk.
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HOMEMADE TAGLIONLI EGG PASTA
with Black Truffle Sauce and Golden Egg

I love the freshly made pasta at Assaggio and with the use of Sunny Eggs, the pasta is even more eggy in taste complimented by the golden egg on top.
***
As well as the egg dishes, the grilled chicken which was divine.
The smell and taste was almost like chicken from Nandos in the UK but lacking peri peri sauce.


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CARAMELIZED EGG PUDDING
Finished with the caramel pudding which was thick, creamy and rich.

+
Easter colouring by me!

Assaggio Trattoria Italiana (Wanchai)
6/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Reservations : +852 2877 3999

[Review 6476] Sorrowful Rice Finale @ 粵軒 Canton Room

25/03/2018
粵軒  Canton Room
灣仔告士打道72號六國酒店1樓
1/F, Luk Kwok Hotel, 72 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sorrowful-rice-finale-e3008571

Sorrowful Rice Finale
2018-03-25  6977 瀏覽
Sorrowful rice 黯然銷魂飯 is a bowl of Cantonese barbecued pork, with an egg, on rice inspired by Stephen Chow’s 周星馳 1996 movie, The God of Cookery 食神.
This dish was launched two years ago hence this is version 3.0.
Last year, I tried version 2.0 and version 3.0 is the finale as they said they will not serve it again.
The difference between 20. and 3.0 is the Pork oil which is said to be more aromatic as they use Roast Pork oil drippings.

Here was the menu that night:
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A nice appetizer to begin the dinner with French beans coated in Salted Egg Yolk and Black Fungus in Vinegar.

Next was the baked crab which was complimented nicely by the Special edition aged Worcestershire sauce from UK.
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My sorrowful rice which was the 70th bowl out of 238 bowls served that night.

It was very satisfying especially with that thick egg yolk and the rice and juicy thick cut Roast Pork!!
[The eggs they use are Japanese Eggs and a special soy sauce which I wouldn't mind just pairing with plain rice because the soy sauce is that good.]
Again, a fork and spoon were seriously needed!
Dessert was Dandelion and Dragonfruit pudding and a mini egg tart.


Although this is the finale, they might launch version 4.0
Let's see!

[Review 6475] So far so good @ 贏麵 (已結業)

25/103/2018
贏麵 (已結業)
上環蘇杭街10號啟豐大廈地下4號舖
Shop 4, G/F, Kai Fung Mansion, 10 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/so-far-so-good-e3008553

So far so good
2018-03-25  991 瀏覽
On the weekdays, this joint does not stand out but it stands out on Sundays when everything else nearby is closed.
It didn't look open because it was in such a state, there was no air con and no one about.
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The menu was reasonable.

I ordered the Sichuan Street Noodles because it didn't have meat.
The portion turned out to be quite big and I was impressed there was quite a fair bit of noodles in the bowl which won't leave me feeling hungry.
The broth was strong and spicy, there were pickled vegetables and lettuce on the top.
I will definitely come back and try other noodles so hopefully it will be consistently good.

[Review 6474] Dumplings from Kowloon to WC @ 餃掂手工餃子雲吞專門店 Nom Nom Dumpling

25/03/2018
餃掂手工餃子雲吞專門店 Nom Nom Dumpling
灣仔莊士敦道44號地下
G/F, 44 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/dumplings-from-kowloon-to-wc-e3008194

Dumplings from Kowloon to WC
2018-03-25  77 瀏覽
Their Matsutake mushroom dumplings are really good so tried the Wanchai branch to see if it was as good as the one in Prince Edward.
As it is new, there are so many curious people trying it out as well so I would recommend trying it later because the service is rather rude and scarily you can hear people behind the kitchen clearing their throats and err you know what they do next.......
Other than that, the dumplings were top notch.
In all past visits, I have tried their fried dumplings so had the boiled version which was surprisingly good as the dumpling skin isn't as thick as it looks.
The Sichuan cold noodles were rather strange because they were served with sesame sauce which I did not use and mixing the sauces on the table with the noodles tasted even better.
The table and seating is very cramped compared to Prince Edward and strangely the service is also better at that branch.

[Review 6473] Full of Life at Café Life @ Café Life Patisserie & Cafe

25/03/2018
Café Life Patisserie & Cafe  休息中
上環皇后大道中251號太興中心二座地下B&C號舖
Shop B&C, G/F, Tower II Tern Centre, 251 Queen’s Road Central, Sheung Wan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/full-of-life-at-cafe-life-e3008025

Full of Life at Café Life
2018-03-25  590 瀏覽
Cafe Life started off at PMQ and now they have a bigger and spacious joint on QRC.All their cakes are Japanese style and everything is so pretty.
The only thing is that, they could do with more tables to cope with people ordering toasts and other things that really need a table.
At the moment, Sakura is trending and on the menu.
Tried the Sakura roll which was delicate filled with fresh cream.

It was so good that I had the strawberry cake which also uses that deliciously whipped fresh cream.
Finished with the Sakura tea which you just don't want to add the Sakura foam cap because the flower at the bottom is so dainty and decorative.
The milk cap blends in perfectly and I think it had some slight saltiness to it.

[Review 6472] English fare at Eat East - Chili Beef @ 波仔 Eat East

24/03/2018
波仔  Eat East
將軍澳港鐵調景嶺站TIK3號舖
Shop TIK3, Tiu Keng Leng MTR Station, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/english-fare-at-eat-east-chili-beef-e3007353

I don't really buy from Eat East because is just Cantonese stuff but I looked twice the other day to see if I was seeing things when I saw a range of English fare at Eat East!!!!Among the range was Cottage Pie, Beef Con Carne, Roast Parsnips, Lamb Tagine etc so I decided to try the Chili Beef.
The good thing is that the whole box is Just Chili Beef ie no pasta or rice because you are getting what you are paying for unlike other meals where you get 3/5 rice/pasta and 2/5 of sauce so within that 2/5s, only 1/5 is meat!!!

The taste was really good and there were huge chunks of pulled beef but perhaps I underestimated how spicy it would be.
Other than that it was fine.